Japan animation industry sales fall 1.8% in 2020; 1st drop in decade

I was offered a job by a Chinese studio but I rejected it as I prefer freedom.

@Big Chungus

Bro, if you don't mind, can you state what all animation studios have a reputation of being fair to it's animators?

The outlook for the Japanese animation industry appears difficult, with competition likely to intensify from Chinese animation firms, the research firm said.

Chinese companies are offering higher salaries to hire Japanese talent and gaining Japanese production skills by taking stakes in Japanese studios. Their animation quality is improving in recent years with advanced facilities, Teikoku Databank said.

Worldwide trend is also increase, I hope those Chinese companies aware about this compared to Japanese one that always focus only in their domestic sales.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200131005198/en/Global-Animation-VFX-Industry-Report-2020-2025-Demand-for-Animation-VFX-Content-to-Power-Immersive-Experiences-such-as-AR-VR-is-Growing-Exponentially---ResearchAndMarkets.com

This makes sense as 2020 heavily affected Japan animation industry.

Still, the fact they recognize the chinese firms offer higher salaries yet do nothing to improve the situation in Japan shows that Japan is just slowly letting its anime industry die.

blue

It's amazing that Japan has wasted every advantages it built up in the last 20 years.

I guess complacency will destroy everything, Japan's own worst enemy is its own ruling class.

Oh well, death and rebirth are near.

But considering the number of shows cancelled last year due to the pandemic, the fall isn't bad at all.

And?

It's merely a matter of time that Chinese, South Korean, Southeast Asian animation industries completely eat away Japanese animation industries.

blue

As said, the japanese will only wake up when they are near complete destruction, this is close to the ending of another part of history, equivalence to when Perry knocked up on Japan's door, except this time it's not the westerners, but the rest of Asia.

@Sindhoor GK

I've worked in a lot of animation studios. And I can't say the conditions have ever been unfair. Some animators, particularly from he west coast, tend to be a bunch of entitled crybabies however.

@blue

Indeed, the domestic market is the most important, the fact Japan now has to rely on foreign market is a sign that japanese are getting poorer.

In a way, showing anime on TV has also been an outdated format, since anime is getting more and more movies like, which means it would be more popular in streaming and download platform in high-quality.

Too bad Japan failed to develop something even close to Netflix.

Still, the COVID-19 pandemic had delayed production processes at many studios

I would be interested in comparing the number of produced anime titles with that of the previous yr. I’m sure that fell too. If so, the sales decline is understandable.

Animation is nothing but a distraction from reality, so if someone is a fan her or she are in need of reality check.

Mark

Animation is art, it is the most creative medium, and humanity is known for art and technology, not reality.

Why Japanese anime don't make mature anime like Chinese and Korean such as 'The Fake', 'The King of Pigs', 'Aachi & Ssipak', 'Have a Nice Day' etc.

BackpackingNepal

They make mature anime, seinen anime is more like half the market these days.

Backpacking Nepal et all

In case, you don't know some mature anime, please watch those:

Gundam UC series

Satoshi Kon movies

Jin-roh

Patlabor series

Kaguya-hime

The recent Belle movie.